A Twist to the Israeli Embassy Attack
YNet is reporting an odd twist to the story. Egypt is claiming that the troublemakers are either foreign plants or from the old Mubarak regime.
Egypt, on its part, is trying to turn the focus to neighboring countries. In a TV interview, Minister Al Jundi said: “What happened is part of a plan to bring Egypt down. There are regimes in neighboring countries that fear what happened here would happen to them.”
He noted that such countries provide “unimaginable” sums to various groups and foundations within Egypt and claimed this proves Saturday’s events are part of a campaign to damage national security.
Egyptian daily Al-Ahram followed the same line. The paper quoted an Egyptian security source as saying that “the events were meant to hurt state institutions and are part of a plan with three goals: Implicating Egypt’s armed forces in a conflict, postponing or preventing parliament elections to avoid stability, and implementing outside agendas meant to embarrass Egypt in the eyes of the international community.”
Other papers stressed that various political movements in Egypt do not approve of the violence and quoted activists who endorse non-violent protest.
Could be true. But why, then, did the Egyptian Army do nothing to stop the attack? In this report, in the second video (at about 44 seconds) there’s a cluster of maybe a dozen of what looks like riot police, or maybe the army, but they’re just standing there.
I just noticed a a swastika on the wall.
